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Jane Litte is the founder of Dear Author, a lawyer, and a lover of pencil skirts. She self publishes NA and contemporaries (and publishes with Berkley and Montlake) and spends her downtime reading romances and writing about them. Her TBR pile is much larger than the one shown in the picture and not as pretty.
You can reach Jane by email at jane @ dearauthor dot com

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Love With the Perfect Scoundrel is a March Regency-set Historical. This is the third book in the “stand alone” Widows Club series published by Avon.

The story:
Twice jilted, the Countess of Sheffield has given up on love. During a disasterous carriage ride north, a mysterious and rugged stranger saves her and challenges her to blossom into the woman she was destined to become . . . a lady willing to risk all to find love with the perfect scoundrel.

Glad Hands is an interracial, dark future trucker m/m romance set in a balkanized America. Driver Chuck Hummingbird, on a mission from High Chief Mankiller of the Tribal Lands, leaves the relative safety of Pacifica and the Lands, to venture into Heartland and the Confederated States.

On the way, he picks up a marked sex offender. Seven, tattooed with an H for homosexual, is drifting through Heartland, trying to survive in a country where he doesn’t formally exist anymore. Now, Chuck and Seven are in for the ride of their lives.

Whatever It Takes, the next book in my Spellbound series, is now available in eBook from Samhain Publishing. The series centers around a family of witches/warlocks who run a private investigation firm.

Government Operative Gideon Bishop thrives on high-risk situations, but even his most volatile mission is nothing compared to coming face-to-face with his past. He's spent the last four years trying to forget Tate Calder and their scorching affair, but the only way to get the information he needs is to keep her close-‘and keep his hands off her. Because the only thing riskier than protecting a woman who insists on hiding the truth, is giving in to the attraction that still crackles between them.

All Tate wants is a quiet holiday with zero interruptions from her family, and even fewer from the witch's council bent on recruiting her. Instead, she finds herself on the run from lethal mercenaries and the police with the one man she never expected to see again. To protect her family's secrets, she'll do whatever it takes to keep Gideon from learning the truth.

Even if it means risking her heart to seduce him-‘over and over again.

The mass market re-release of YOUR MOUTH DRIVES ME CRAZY is out…now! Same story at a lower price. How can you say no to that?

Cover Copy:

Annie Parks came to Hawaii to settle a score, not spend time handcuffed to a sexy stranger's bed-‘even if said stranger saved her from drowning after she was pitched overboard by some goons. Looking at six feet of hard, Hawaiian muscle and gorgeous cool that's making forgotten parts of her say, â€œAloha!,â€ Annie needs to stay focused. But a side dish of Kane Travers is awfully tempting.

Kauai Police Chief Kane Travers is not a vacation kind of guy. So it figures that when Internal Affairs suspended him, he'd end up rescuing a sarcastic, dishonest, extremely hot redhead who is clearly hiding something. Kane's got half a mind to give Miss Whoever She Is something she'll never forget, even if his cop senses tell him she needs his protection. But how can he get her to tell him anything when his mouth won't stop covering hers?
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New Blood is out now from Tor Paranormal Romance. This Victorian steampunk fantasy romance got a ‘B’ review from the Smart Bitches.

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In 1636, the last blood sorceress was burned at the stake. More than two hundred years later, her blood servant Jax has found her successor. Amanusa at first turns down the opportunity to learn what she perceives as an evil art, but she craves justice.

When Amanusa looses magic on those who’ve harmed her, she must flee for her life across a devastated Europe with Jax, who is inescapably bound to her by blood and magic. Their journey takes them through zones where everything–including magic–has died. Zones populated with strange creatures cobbled together from things left behind by the dead.

Needing each other for their very survival, Amanusa and Jax grow ever closer on their journey to discover answers–about magic, blood sorcery, the dead zones, and even love.

Is it okay to comment on the above? Interestingly enough, I’m reading Your Mouth is Driving Me Crazy right now — well, actually posting here right now, but only because I took a break to see if “deceptually” is a word…

As in:
…he asked in a deceptually calm tone.

It’s not, and my spellcheck is confirming that now.

Anyhow, was taking a break and decided to see what was going on. :)

“Deceptually” aside, I like the book. It started a little slow for me, but has gotten progressively better, and now I’m quite enjoying it.

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Released Feb 24, my new book, Moving Day, is all about creating a new life from the leftovers and finding out that things can be better the second time round.

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Title: Moving Day
Genre: m/m romance
Length: 30,000

Blurb
Mike Paloso has lost count of the number of times he’s helped childhood friend Jay Charles move. Jay’s never had much of a home to call his own, content to follow his boyfriends around, but each breakup means a new pad, until the next guy comes along. This time, it’s different. There’s been no breakup, and no new pad. Instead, there’s one hell of a fixer-upper, and not just the house Jay’s inherited from his latest, late, beau. This time, Mike has to find a way to repair Jay’s broken dreams and mangled heart.
With every reno, there comes some demo, but Mike’s not sure he’s ready to dismantle his life to rebuild Jay’s.

Sarmatia is a trainer for the Bull Rite, the dangerous, glamorous ceremony of bull-leaping that gave a young Kretan entry into adulthood. Fearn is healer from the distant northern Isle of Stones summoned for his skills to the sick-bed of Minos, the Kretan king. They meet on the dusty flagstones of the palace courtyard and both save a life.

A year passes. They are betrothed, but Fearn has returned home and is chosen king of his small northern country. As king, master of storms, he cannot return to Krete. Fearn writes to Sarmatia releasing her from her vows – but is this what they really want?

Sarmatia leaves Krete to search for Fearn. Many months and life-and-death adventures later, she is reunited with him. She and Fearn are still deeply in love but there is an unknown enemy working against them, one who will stop at nothing, even murder.

Blurb: Chandra Walker always hoped to find out who her birth parents were; she just didn't expect the truth to put her in the middle of a shapeshifter war with the power to determine the outcome, complicated by a forbidden love for two mates.

“Keryss spat out pieces of her former mate as she flew over the vast Interzone outside of Villius.”

Seeking Something Wicked, the second book in my Utopia-X series, just released from Loose Id. These novels are m/m futuristic urban fantasy/romance (how’s that for a subgenre!) but not sci fi. The purchase page, with blurb and excerpt is here.

Animal Instincts, my second book for Little Black Dress, releases this week – check out my blog for excerpts, chat and prizes in a week long celebration hosted by Clodagh and Imogen the heroines of Animal Instincts. http://nelldixonrw.blogspot.com

Clodagh Martin is fond of her celebrity sister Imogen, but in small doses. So when she turns up drunk at Rainbow’s End, Clodagh’s animal sanctuary, announcing she’s in trouble and staying for a long visit, Clodagh’s not exactly delighted. She has enough problems right now. The business is broke, and there’s been a worrying wave of vandalism. Is someone really trying to ruin her? A big property magnate, bad-lad Jack Thatcher, has been showing a rather strong interest in Clodagh lately. But is it her or her assets he’s after?

You can read the first chapter on my website http://www.nelldixon.com
Animal Instincts is available from Amazon, Waterstones, Play.com, Book Depository and other bookstores.

Animal Instincts, my second book for Little Black Dress, releases this week – check out my blog for more excerpts, chat and prizes in a week long celebration hosted by Clodagh and Imogen.http://nelldixonrw.blogspot.com

Clodagh Martin is fond of her celebrity sister Imogen, but in small doses. So when she turns up drunk at Rainbow’s End, Clodagh’s animal sanctuary, announcing she’s in trouble and staying for a long visit, Clodagh’s not exactly delighted. She has enough problems right now. The business is broke, and there’s been a worrying wave of vandalism. Is someone really trying to ruin her? A big property magnate, bad-lad Jack Thatcher, has been showing a rather strong interest in Clodagh lately. But is it her or her assets he’s after?

Read the first unedited chapter on my website http://www.nelldixon.com
Animal Instincts is available from Amazon, Play.com, Book Depository

My second novel Mariana, which has been out of print for ages, is being re-issued this month in the UK.

The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she's at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason. As if Greywethers were a portal between worlds, she finds herself transported into seventeenth-century England, becoming Mariana, a young woman struggling against danger and treachery, and battling a forbidden love. Each time Julia travels back, she becomes more enthralled with the past…until she realizes Mariana's life is threatening to eclipse her own, and she must find a way to lay the past to rest or lose the chance for happiness in her own time.

The publishers are planning an ebook version as well in the not-too-distant future, but in the meantime you can order the book (with free worldwide shipping!) from The Book Depository

Tall, dark and very Spanish, Antonio Villareal is a lover unlike any Jane has ever known-‘undeniably sexy and more than willing to help her explore her submissive side. To find a master who’s a natural dominant is one thing. But kind and considerate, as well? She can hardly believe her good fortune.

Antonio is well aware that Jane is determined to keep their sexual relationship temporary. But he has a different plan in mind.

It's never easy being the head honcho and things have just gotten worse for Chief Archangel Michael in the past few years. Not only has he found himself smack dab in the middle of an angel civil war, but his family has suffered a heart-breaking blow. With his nephew, Bear, possessed by an ancient demon, Michael and the angel warriors head off on a quest to find a fairy child who holds the cure. It's a race against time as each day brings Bear closer to death.

The one bright spot in Michael's life is Rachael. He has admired the beautiful female archangel from afar for years, but has never dared to act on his feelings. Then he finds himself thrown together with her as they fight to save Bear's life. Michael knows he can no longer deny his feelings for her. Until a dark secret from his past threatens to destroy everything he has… and everything he ever dreamed of.

â€œYou'll love all these characters down to your soul,â€
– Angie at Night Owl Romances

The life of a psychologist is enough to drive anyone nuts…

Ever since she blew up her own office with nitroglycerin (she was sure the patient was bluffing—until the vial exploded), psychologist Kate Holly has been one step away from going off her rocker. It doesn't help that she's still in love with her firefighter ex-husband. They both want to patch things up, but Kate has been using sex to avoid talking, and he wants to know; is there something she is not telling him?

Well yes, there is. Kate is about to get evicted from her office, and her best option may be to share space with her hot tub-loving ex-boyfriend, Dr. Thad Glazer. With her oddball patients, her meddling mother, and her eccentric secretary thrown into the mix-‘not to mention a spate of suspicious fires- will Kate put her life back together before she ends up in a padded cell?

Gracielis wants to deny his strange abilities and ignore the ghosts that haunt him and the priestess who rules him. Thiercelin wants his wife to love him, but all her time and energy are devoted to the city of Merafi and its Queen. Valdarrien, slain in a duel, wants to find his lost love and to live again. And the soldier Joyain just wants a quiet life.
But in the ancient city of Merafi, you don’t always get what you want.
A dark fantasy of haunts, intrigues, star-crossed love, elemental powers, political rivalries and shapeshifters, set in a world a little like the Paris of The Three Musketeers

Living With Ghosts, published by DAW Books, 3rd March 2009
by Kari Sperring
484 pages
ISBN 9780756405427

An overview:
Hana, Paige, Connie and Pepper form a lasting bond at Dempster Media, gathering in the break room for tea and toast. When Pepper leaves the company, the girls add a new venue – Paige’s cottage in the woods – where, over cocktails and gossip, the four friends trade secrets and sex tips.

Pepper abandons her domestic life, restlessly flitting from man to man looking for the perfect balance of sex and compatibility. Will she find it, or was it always right in front of her?

Sweet, sexy Connie’s infinite patience can’t save her when her jealous husband leaves her for another woman. Now single, she attempts to relocate her sensuality with a hunky handyman.

Paige is the earth mother, sprinkling snippets of advice like herbs on a salad. Married to her high school sweetheart, she seems to have the perfect life. But she carries her own secrets…

Small-town Hana tests her sexual boundaries with hot editor Adam, but she gets more than she bargained for. When he asks her to experiment with BDSM, she panics and calls off the relationship, setting off a chain of catastrophic events that brings the four women closer than ever.

The Toast Bitches is a sexy, hilarious romp – think Sex in the City meets 30 Rock.

My debut historical romance novel Fire at Midnight was released by Medallion Press on March 1. This novel placed or won in over 30 Romance Writers of America chapter contests, and it went on to win the Grand Prize in the Maryland Writers Association Novel Contest.

It received a 4-star rating from Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine, a glowing review from Harriet Klausner, and a 5 Blue Ribbon Rating from Romance Junkies. It has been reviewed by a number of romance-themed blogs, most recently by The Romance Roundtable.

A young man, thrown in a primitive world where blood and sex are sacrificed to sanguinary gods in a vicious ritual, tries to stop the sorcerer from satisfying his own bloodlust and sexual cravings on innocent virgins. An intended victim himself, the handsome stranger will use sexual persuasion to gain his trust without revealing the truth behind the bloody offerings. But in his dangerous quest to save the virgins, Rowen will get more blood, sex and cruelty than he has bargained for.

Everyone in Bay Mignon knows the Truitts are white-trash bad news, generations of moon-shiners and drug runners, and none more so than handsome Bolt Truitt. Rumor insists some of the fifteen years he's been away were spent in prison. Cameron Fontaine knows that's true. But he also knows the town doesn't know the real Bolt.

Cameron does. He's loved Bolt since they were both kids, just discovering life and each other. Even though fate ripped them apart, Cameron never stopped believing in Bolt, never stopped loving him. And his heart swears Bolt's different, the drug dealing left in the past. No matter his other sins, Bolt has never lied to Cameron.

Until now. Evidence, words from Bolt's own lips, shatter Cameron's trust and his heart. Still, a lifetime of love, even separated for so long, can’t just be set aside. Though he can’t trust Bolt any more, Cameron will risk everything to see his lover safe…even his life…

“Copperhead Road is yet another dramatic rollercoaster ride of emotion from the pens of these two talented authors. The story is told solely from Cameron’s point-of-view, leaving the reader just as confused as Cam is about Bolt, his intentions and just why the other man returned to Bay Mignon from Los Angeles. From the moment Bolt steps back into Cam’s sights, the book takes us on a twisting journey of rediscovered love, age-old fear and desperate desire.

Torquere Press releases
ANIMAL ATTRACTION 2
March 25, 2009
More gay romance for the beast in all of us.

From the jungles of the Amazon to the snow-capped mountains of remote China, animals of all kinds are in Animal Attraction 2, a new anthology of short stories from Torquere Press. A follow-up to the first anthology in the series, Animal Attraction, (released in 2007) these six long stories have a way of making men come together-‘in all sorts of sexy ways.

Editor Vincent Diamond (Rough Cut, Men of Mystery, Hot Cops) is donating 10% of the editor's proceeds to Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue based in Maryland (http://www.gentlegiantsdrafthorserescue.com/) and Florida Draft Horse Rescue (http://www.drafthorserescue.org/) based in Florida. These non-profit charities provide rescue and rehab efforts for the draft breeds of horses: Belgians, Clydesdales, Percherons, Shires, and other heavy breeds.

The Animal Attraction 2 stories offer a variety of characters, settings, conflict and relationships. From Jane Davitt, “Driven by Destiny” is set in the glamourous world of 1930’s Hollywood where a leopard makes for a very interesting night in for a bodyguard and an actresses’ agent. In “Elusive Blue”, Kiernan Kelly spins the tale of a rare blue tiger who escapes from a cirucs act. Snails are featured in CB Potts’ “Slow and Steady”, and Aaron Michaels writes about reptiles in “The Case of the Missing Boa”. Julia Talbot writes about livestock, roughstock and lust in “Rodeo Mafia”, and “Hiding in Snow” by Sean Michael features a hard-to-find snow leopard.

Animal Attraction 2 is available in e-book and print formats from Torquere Press:

Madame Bliss: The Erotic Adventures of a Lady
by Charlotte Lovejoy
Available now from Eclipse/NAL
Isbn:978-0451225979

I'll admit it up front: I'm a difficult reader to please.

Most contemporary erotica strikes me as too brusque, too crass, too frank, and too appropriate for certain men's magazines. It's also sadly lacking in fun, and almost completely without romance. When I decided to write an erotic novel, I looked looked backwards for my inspiration, back to the eighteenth century when sex was bawdy rather than dirty, and most passionate encounters took place in English country inns rather than in high-rise hotels in Vegas. I wanted to recapture the rollicking high spirits of Tom Jones and Fanny Hill, and the deliciously worldly (and delightfully romantic) adventures of those characters.

Thus Miss Marianna Wren was born: a wide-eyed innocent determined to make her way making love, and to have a fine old time in the process, and if she quickens your pulse in the process, why, all the better. Miss Wren is a well-traveled lady, and she does enjoy the company.

â€œFour stars! A lively piece of erotic fiction that explores how the wanton vagaries of fate turn a young girl's life around…from unknown to lady and from innocent to experienced….Marianna becomes Madame Bliss and partakes of ravishments, seductions and sensual fantasies galore. Given wealth and fame, Marianna yearns for real love, and she may have one more chance for happiness just when readers believe all is lost. Bawdy and ribald.â€ (Scorcher rating) ~Kathe Robin, Romantic Times Book Reviews

My Strength, My Power, My Love
An erotic sci-fi romance novel
by Linda Mooney
Now Available and 10% Off fromWhiskey Creek Press Torrid
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-60313-432-3
Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-60313-433-0
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Once in every one million births, a child is born on Bellac with the Synergistic gene. These children are taken from their parents and prepared for the day when they will find their Synergistic other half. For when that happens, an entirely new power is created-‘a power ready to protect and defend their home world.

Grey Dansis is a Synergian ready to find the male who will become her life-long partner. Unfortunately Grey has secretly harbored a longing for Rowe Maine. But the man is five years her senior and an Unmatched Synergian who has lost his chance to become one of the rare few empowered union mates.

When their world is attacked by marauders, Grey has no idea that Rowe is her fated other half. Or that the power that could come from their union would be the only force strong enough to save Bellac from complete annihilation.

They may never know because the law won’t even let them touch.
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Check the WCPT website for the complete first chapter, and http://www.LindaMooney.com for an additional excerpt.

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